inwashed they are about Ukraine? You don't think 25 percent are solidly holding out with independent thought and they have an anti-war bias and they're thinking, I hate Trump. I freaking hate Trump. But he might stop this war. Everything's going his way right now, like in a very substantial way.

How about Hunter's laptop and the corruption that we all saw there? It just proves everything about Trump was right, right? The Hunter laptop story wildly helps Trump. How about the cocaine that was just found in the White House? All right, we'll talk about that more. Does that help Trump? Do you think Trump looks better now that they found cocaine in the White House? Yeah, of course. It's like one of these weird not-really-an-important stories. It's probably the least important thing that's happening in the world, is a bag of cocaine in the White House. Nothing's less important than that. But in our minds it just makes the non-drinking, non-drug-taking Trump look like a superstar. I mean, really. You let a bunch of degenerates in the White House with their cocaine. That's what people are going to say. Not me.

All right. Wall Street Journal. And then of course Biden himself is decomposing right in front of our eyes. So everything's looking friendly for Trump at the moment. I think on the economy the economy might be a jump ball. I think on the economy people will just retreat to their parties, because there is an argument for Biden being good on the economy. That's not my opinion. The data simply suggests that, because we're coming, you know, even inflation has slightly come down. But directionally, directionally things look like they're improving now. We do have a potentially insolvent insurance and banking industry, but I think we'll work our way through it. I think. But anyway, neither. The situation I think is ambiguous enough. You could argue that Trump could do better in x ways, and you could argue that Biden actually did pretty well given the situation. You could argue that neither president has anything to do with anything. We just have a strong free market and it handled it. So it wasn't Biden. Just the free market did what it does. So I think that economics is going to be a jump ball. So that's not going to favor Trump substantially.

All right. Here's a story that feeds into this theme. The Wall Street Journal is talking about how there's a growing Republican consensus about using the military against the cartels. Here is a sentence from the Wall Street Journal reporting today: Quote, there is a simple reason the idea of military intervention keeps cropping up. It is popular and not just with the Republicans. In an NBC poll taken in late June, sending troops to the border to stop drugs was the single best liked of 11 GOP proposals tested with Republican primary voters. Hold on, hold on. And it was the only one that gained support from a majority of all registered voters. All registered voters.

I have two words to say about that. Two words. You're welcome. How do you like me now?

Now, of course it could turn into a horrible debacle, you know, depending on how it gets executed if it does. But there you go. So we'll see if it happens. I mean, it still requires a Republican president, so that by no means does it mean any of this is going to happen. By no means. But the public is on this side. Public's on the side.

Here's a true anecdote. Recently a friend told me that another friend of theirs died from a fentanyl overdose. How many of you have heard that story recently? Somebody you know died of a fentanyl overdose. Tell me just somebody you know personally. I have. Yes. Yes. You know some no's but a lot of yeses. Have we reached the point where most of the country knows somebody who died of fentanyl?

All right. You want to have your brain broken? There's a second part to the story. So I said, how many people do you know who have died of fentanyl overdose, like for sure died of fentanyl overdose? Person said approximately 10.

Ten.

And I said, 10 in what period of time? Two years. Two years. Ten. Ten people this person knows. Well, 10. Ten people. Two years.

All right. Next topic. So I guess there's a U.S. District Court just ruled that this might be a big deal. The government can't coerce social media to censor news. Now I don't know how this will actually play out in the real world, because it's a little like affirmative action. I'm not sure the government has to twist any arms. Am I right? Do they really need to twist any arms? They don't really. They just need to whisper it. Hey Mark, you know, it'd really be nice if your platform, I don't know, just had a little less of this or that. And then Mark says, oh, that's what my side wants. My side wants less of this or that. Is that the government coercing people? Or is that just somebody knowing what team is on? And then he finds out what the team wants. Is that coercion? Not really. But yes. But not really. But it totally is. But not really.

I'm not sure that this really makes any difference. Do you think the ruling will make any difference at all? Maybe in the form of the coercion, but not in the coercion. The coercion should be exactly the same. We'll see. We shall see.

So where's Prigozhin? Prigozhin. He's in Belarus. Belarus. Is he partying it up in Belarus? Is anybody having good selfies? Has he published a lot of selfies lately? How many of you have figured out that you need to listen to me to figure out what the news really is? Well, you might be alive, but he's definitely under Putin's control. Putin would have been silly to kill him right away. That would have been the wrong move. That's not good dictatoring.

Good dictatoring is you capture him, you interrogate him, you find out who's working with him, and when you're completely sure that you've tortured him to the point where he's really given you everybody, then you kill him as a mercy. That would be good dictatoring. So we assume that Putin is a high-level operator in the dictatoring. So his dictatoring probably included this very obvious move.

Have you seen the news embarrassingly admit that they had been fooled into thinking he went to Belarus when obviously that never happened? You've seen all those stories? Correction. We said he went to Belarus, but it turns out it was only his plane as far as we know. You see all the corrections, right? No. No corrections. How long do we have to wait without seeing a picture of him before we can admit he's not in Belarus? How long?

All right. Well, you're already here. First of all, you probably saw in the news that there's a Ukraine-built nuclear power plant that Russia has control of now. So they control that territory and they control the plant. And the Ukrainians say that the Russians have planted explosives on the top of it and they're planning to blow it up or to missile it or drone it. It's called the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

Oh, you all believe that, right? Do you? Do you all believe that Russia will attack a nuclear power plant on the territory it controls, its own territory? It's going to blow up a multi-billion dollar asset of their own, one that they use on their own territory that they've captured?

Here's what's different in 2023. In 2023 we all know it's a false flag. Well, literally all of us know that. We've all been trained. We finally learned what it looks like, how they do it, and how the news will cover it. And the hilarious thing about this is that everybody spotted this at the first minute. It was like Zelensky's on TV. It's like, well, the Russians, they seem to have put explosives on the top of the nuclear power pla